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Recent Examples of machinate But Cleopatra, still machinating away in Alexandria, couldn’t handle the thought of Herod gaining any further traction in Antony’s affections. Anne Thériault, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019 Now a new scheme described by ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal involves families seemingly machinating to get an unfair leg up in paying for a coveted seat at a university. Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 30 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for machinate
Verb
  • The Shiz University roommates initially clash before forming a friendship, which is tested at the end of the first movie when the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum), who secretly plots to silence the talking animals of Oz, comes between them.
    Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Casanovas and Benlloch are plotting a continued, healthy expansion.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The White House has not yet negotiated lower prices on IVF drugs from other manufacturers.
    Aria Bendix, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The only long-term solution — in my view — is a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank whose borders are negotiated with Israel.
    Thomas L. Friedman, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In Return From the Ashes (1965), Eggar schemed to murder her stepmother (Ingrid Thulin), a concentration camp survivor.
    Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Dissecting film and scheming up plays went from duty to obsession.
    Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • The ethical dimension of creating and manipulating living brain cells remains under discussion.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Don't Look Now manipulates audiences' minds, mixing elements of the occult with the overwhelming need for hope into a plot twist audiences will find difficult to swallow.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a feat of logistics, the production miraculously arranged the shooting schedule so that every principal actor’s final scene on the show was also their last day of filming — something the Duffers have been freshly reliving again and again in the edit bay.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • However, for years, police suspected that Charles arranged the murder of Markel.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Designed with an amalgamation of pure engineering and engineered for theatrical performance, the bridge literally breathes fire and water.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In pursuit of pollution reduction—and the potential shot in the arm of industrial growth—Caravel aims to engineer new enzymes and processes that facilitate low-cost, low-energy chemical manufacturing.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The mystery is less about who’s involved in the game afoot, as alert audiences piecing together context clues will be immediately aware of those nefarious parties upon their introductions, and is more about the puzzling lengths the filmmakers go to in planting contrived red herrings.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Even if parts of the individual storylines still come across as contrived or at least dramatically convenient, the ending reminds and underlines that these things, and things far worse, happened in Israel on October 7, 2023.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Machinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machinate. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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